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The Creature Feature

July 2025·pp. 4–5

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A studio challenge gives overlooked companion creatures a 35mm plinth and a small story of their own. Owen, Rowan, Ant and Kieran turn rats, gargoylians, a servo-skull, a rocket-driven squig and graveyard animals into independent vignettes. Composition does much of the work: a tiny nest gets a deliberately small “puddle” base, a Nurgling is crushed under a Drop Pod door, and a sculpted strand of kelp makes an ethershark appear to swim.

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